I understand the wild beast’s roars. (IP) (Nat.geo.wild)

 I understand the wild beast’s roars” 

                            ( ip)(Nat.geo.wild)

I understand.             by MarciaMarcia

the wild beast’s roars

as they stand in sway or lay rocking

beside their lost 

their lost partner

their lost parent 

their lost sibling

their lost cub

I understand the wild beast’s body next to body

rhythmically rocking…..

back and forth

pushing futilely 

coaxing the lifeless back to life

their bellowing

reverberating roars

from the depths of wound-ripping pain…..

separation

 

their snouts breathe in the fading feramons that enabled a new pack

their untamed, untrained limbs

nudging, pushing under lymp legs, lymp thighs, and hooves

once rumbling the dusted earth

they lay upon now

 

I understand the wild beast’s stay…..

endlessly grieving

some for days

some for weeks

some forever…..

unable to abandon their lost

dying there.....they lay beside

 

This primal grieving is all the wild beasts know

of the moment

of the moment after 

of the moments 

after the after

Their roars, cries of the pained severing abandonment

exist in space between 

time and time

 

I understand…the wild beasts…

I rock.....

in this place of loss

of no day, no night

no up, no down

no left, no right

no light

only dark envelops

endless hours 

of breathing human 

an incompleteness of any comprehension….

of reason…..of reasons. 

 

and from my mouth

cavernous and open

comes decibel’s, deafening primal roar…

rising from depths

of inner hollow

not known by me, before

I understand the wild beast’s roars

You…..

are my lost…..

You…..

are no more

I…..

am emptiness

alone

 

   By MarciaMarcia

         September 18, 2021
          for Michael